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Dark Times
Happy Friday, PW Picks subscribers! Yearning for some perspective? This week, we've got a slate of titles—a brutal vampire novel, a stranger-than-fiction biography, and a stylish coming-of-age fantasy comic—that glance toward the past without a whiff of nostalgia. Elsewhere, we're serving up interviews with Kristen Arnett and Filipino crime writer F.H. Batacan, who's back with her first book in more than 20 years. Happy reading!
March 14, 2025
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Check out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week. more
Story Image Stephen Graham Jones Knows Good Stories Don’t Happen in Heaven
When it came to writing his first vampire novel, the bestselling author knew he’d have to do things his own way, reimagining the fabled bloodsucker as an Indigenous vigilante. more
Story Image Kristen Arnett Sends in the Clowns
Known for her sharp sense of humor, the novelist understands that comedy is often the only way to process grief and trauma. more

Publishers Weekly: PW Children's Previews 2025
Story Image Sex During Lockdown: PW Talks with Amy Shearn
An app developer and recent divorcée experiments with online dating during the Covid-19 lockdown in Animal Instinct. more
Story Image The Curse of the Familiar: PW Talks with F.H. Batacan
In the Filipino crime writer’s new story collection, Accidents Happen, characters search for justice in the Philippines. more
Story Image “We’re All the Products of Housework”: PW Talks with Emily Callaci
Historian Callaci delves into the 1970s movement to demand fair pay for household labor in Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor. more

Editors’ Picks
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Murder by Memory

By Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)

I'm a big fan of Olivia Waite's historical romance novels, so I was excited to dive into her sci-fi debut. This clever, cozy, body-swapping mystery did not disappoint. —Phoebe Cramer, SFF, horror, and romance reviews editor
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Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson

By Claire Hoffman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

An evangelical radio preacher disappears in 1920s L.A., presumed dead, only to scandalously reappear in flagrante weeks later with a lover in Mexico. The sensational narrative doubles as an intriguing study of the birth of modern American celebrity culture, wherein fame’s fictions begin to outweigh fact.
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The Confessional

By Paige Hender (Silver Sprocket)

Accented with delicate art deco style, this pretty and playful graphic novel mixes horror and erotica in a tale about a winsome young immortal newbie reluctant to murder who falls for a sexy bad-boy priest (shout out to Fleabag fans) in 1920s New Orleans. It's an innovative debut from a punk indie publisher that feels poised for a broad readership.

PW Spring Comics Previews 2025
Top 10 Bestsellers
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Wild Side (Standard Edition)
Elsie Silver, Author
3
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr Seuss, Author
4
Bluey: Let's Play Games! Sound Book [With Battery]
Pi Kids, Author
5
Dog Man: Big Jim Begins: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #13): From the Creator of Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator
6
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Dr Seuss, Author, Ring, Author
7
How to Catch a Leprechaun
Adam Wallace, Author, Wallace Adam, Author, Andy Elkerton, Illustrator
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The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Author
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Oathbound
Tracy Deonn, Author
10
Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Author
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